Husband Cites Best Man,
--
Gets
Decree
A MAN who, seven years ago was best man at the wedding of his friend, uppcared in the Divorce Court in London recently-cited as co-respondent by the husband.
Paris Changing
'Moscow Street
To 'Helsinki"
PARIS, Dec. 12 (AP)—If some Councilmen have their way, "Moscgw". Birect in Paris will become "Ilelsinki" Street.
At a noisy nesolon at which Finland's defence against Hussla was praised, several Councilmen Introduced a motion to name a irect in the elty after the. Fin- nish capital. Other Councilmen immediately proposed the present Moscow Street be renamed Kel- sinki (Helsingfors).
The resolution was referred to A commitice which indicated 1 would give quick approval to tho change.
NEW CHIEF FOR
R. A. A. F.
Mr. Justice Hodson granted a decree nisi to Mr. Laurence Aloysius Nicholas Henry Doyle, who gave a London hotel as his address.
Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH February 5, 1940.
The Worst Official Muddle Yet
FILED
R.A.F. MAN TOLD
TOLD HE LETTER
IS
NOT
THEY SANE
AND "GIVEN" A CHILD
CARSHALTON, SURREY.
AIRCRAFTMAN F. LEMPRIEVE, is a victim of brutal official muddle.
Further ofcialdom has notified him of the birth of a daughter he does
| not possess.
The petition was on the ground
And finally it has casually describ- that Mrs. Doris May Doyle com- altted misconduct with Mr. Charles ed him as "of unsound mind."
The remark about "unsound mind" Stewart, now on war service, und formerly of
of Finleigh Court, Buth-was scribbled on the side of a printed Mrs. Lem- document in reply to road, Slough, Buckinghamshire.
Mrs. Doyle did not contest the nuit, priero's desperate appeals for allow- Mr. Stewart, who conducted his anges to which she is entitled. own cur, contended that Mr. Doyle nd condoned his wife's mirconduet and connived at it and, by his con- duct, had conluced to j
Wanted Wife Back
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle were married at Kensington Reglater Oce in July
I spent this afternoon with Mr. Lempriere and discussed the com- plicated story of his case. He is an entirely sane and highly intelligent
man.
Completely Fit
That brutal comment, however, Inj only one incident in the tribulations 1932, and last lived together at of the Lemprlere family. Penywern-roud, Earl's Court, S.W. Mr. Lempriere was a local govern-
Mr. Justice Hodson, giving Judgment clerk, who had never known a} ment, pointedout that Mrs. Boyle had
Aled on aus wer to the suit which was afterwards struck out, and she [had not been in court.
Mr. Doyle had admitted that the circumstances in which he met his wife made it incumbent on him to tako extraordinary care of her.
But he did not fake particular care of Iter, At that time he was drinking heavily, and it soon became impos- sible for Mra. Doyle to live with film. Mr. Doyle, who was dependent on an allowance from trustees, wanted
Greatly to his credit, he got rid propensity to drink, and re- doubled his efforts to get his wife back.
THE appointment of Air Marsh (acting Air Chief-his wife back, Marshal) Sir Charles S. Burnett as Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force has led to a reshuffle in three higher commands of the R.A.F..
Took Housekeeper
day's illness.
He served throughout the Inst war, latterly in the R.A.F., and was called up for the present war on a Class E
reservist.
When medically examined he wasl passed as completely fit and sent to on aerodrome.
He and 1,500 other men were given| blankets and sent to sleep on cement floor of a hangar.
The
During the night ground mist made. them so cold that they ran up and down on the tarmac to get worm,
Mr. Lemprlere was later posted to another Air Force unit and was taken j seriously ill. 1s life was despaired of, and after a serious abdominal operation repeated blood transfusions were made.
Meanwhile Mrs. Lempriere had! been forced to apply for public - did not reach her for six weeks.
Payment Stopped
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Briton Fights On At 64
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Then for the Arst time she remem- bered that three years ago she re- rcived л letter from Bayswater naking about the hospital's work.
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Just fled, and conveniently forgot- In November, 1919, he was asked ten."
BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ·
differ-
In cas
Appointments to take place "In the Doyle took a housekeeper, with whom sistance because her allowance book and of brutality 20 years old, ent Europe, when as a young man doctor told the Sunday Pictorial, "his Kowloon
near future."
Air.
Air-Marshal Sir Christopher Lloyd Courtney to be Air Member for Sup- ply and Organisation on the Council in place of Air Vice-Marshat (neting Air-Marshal). Welsh,
Air Vice-Marshal Gossage is the new Inspector-General of the R.AF., replacing Air-Marshal (acting Air Chief-Marsh!) Sir Chorles Burnett.
She did not return, however, Mr. he eventually committed misconduct. In respect of that misconduct. Mr. Doyle had to ask for the discretion of the court.
After explaining how Mr. and Mrs. came together again. Mr. Doyle Justice Hodson held that Mrs. Doyle's eventual misconduct was not con- duced to by the husband..
He found that Mr. Doyle hnd not been guilty of connivance or cotton Sation; and exercising discretion in his
favour, granted him a decree nisi.
De Valera "Solves" Irish Problem.
SINGLE BRITAIN
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to
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MR. DE VALERA, Eire's posed to unity that they should be Prime Minister, has a plan for transferred out of Ireland, if they settling his country's "minority" preferred to be British rather than problem."
It has a similarity to that by which Germans were transferred "home" from the Balle States.
Mr. de Valera disclosed his plan at the annual Congress, of the Fianna Fall
Party,
which re-elected hit
prealdent.
He saw no Justice, he said, in a portion of the Irish people who wanted to be under a national Parlia ment being kept out by force.
There
was not a nation whose territory and national home were of well defined as the national home of the Irish people.
frish.
If that were arranged by the two peoples it would cost far less than the constant friction between them. Viscount Craigavon, Northern Ire- Minister, addressing Pring and Orangemen in Belfast, said that ar- rangements to meet any dinkulty from the South of Ireland were: "splendid and complete."
MICKEY ROONEY MAY
an
On November her husband was brought home from hospital
in ambulance with £1.
He was given a slip of paper stating that he would be discharged from the November 29, his in- Army as from
valid, family and other allowances to continue till that date, when he would receive his discharge papers,
They have not arrived. All allow- iances stopped on Nove
November 23. In reply to a letter asking the for this his wife was told that, "in consequence of her hus band's discharge," the Past Office had stopped payment, but that "a postal draft for family allowance in respect of the birth of your child, Carol, will be forwarded."
reason
When she protested that there wan no Carol the authorities sent 3171 apology.
Subsequent correspondence pro- duced a reply from the main depot with a marginal note "Your husband was discharged with unsound mind."
I have seen all the papers-asses of them and some are just est pencil notes protesting ignorance of
unything and everything.
They have now been turned over to Mr. Tom Williams, M.P., who is to insist on full redress.
STOCK MARKET
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MEMORIES of a Russian prison, Ils story sweeps back to were raised at question time in the House of Commons recently.
"favouritism"
Sir Cooper Rawson (C.. Brighton); asked the Prime Minister:--
If the Government were taking of the Third International. He re-instances
to work in the anti-British sectioni The West End doctor cited two
how any further action to press for
own|operates in certain cases. compensation from the Sovieti
-Two doctors have a good prac- Government for the Injuries suf-
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cach Javc
been fered by Mr. Joseph Martin, of He was arrested; thrown into a
awarded five "Boards" a week for Brighton, who was imprisoned verminous cell, beaten by warders,
examining recruits. without trial in Moscow in 1919; starved.
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fused to play traitor to his country.
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"For each Board they receive £22%. Thus their practice is richer by £21 n weck.
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Later he was transferred to the If he would consider granting payment to Mr. Martin because his Butirki prison in Moscow,.
He was tied to his bed with ropes "Jobs Kept Open" claim was not put forward · with| those of two other British subjects, that cut weals in his arms.
beaten severely. which were met by the Soviet
Another man who practised den÷ Government in 1923.
After a time he fell unconscious, tistry, but never touched medicine,
A corridor has been The Prime Minister repiled that and was pitched into
appointed as Aqualined examiner. 260 claims against the among corpses.
A fellow-prisoner rescued him, and Soviet Government for rompensation
Meanwhile, other doctors see their for the consequences of imprisonment he lay for months in a state of ex-incomes rapidly depicted as the re- years.
haustion.
sult of evacuation and the cabing up It is of ten leaves and it has been quest of the British Government and
In 1920 he was released ni the re- of men. repatriated.
there are
of British subjects in Russin.
In none of these had it heen pos- sible to obtain satisfaction.
Wouldn't Be Traitor
A pamphlet worth £1,000 has been discovered after laying about for 300
"It is a scandal that Government discovered in the survey of the an- money should be used by an associa- cient Ubrary of Ston College on the His complaint against the Govern- tion for the payment of past ser- Embankment, neat Blackfriars Behind that question and answer ment is that in 1023 two similar vices," said the West End doctor. Bridge. lles a bitter story. Mr. Martin, who cases those of Mrs, Davidson, whose "But that is happening, new lives with his Russian wife in husband was shot, and Mrs: Star
"Ceriain local branches of tie-it-has-Intn-gathering"dust"on the St. George's terrace, Brighton, told It Harding, who had been imprisoned 13.NL.A. are keeping Jobs open shelves for more than 300 yours. to me.
for four months--were pressed nicely for their members,”
Published in London in 1830, the At 64 he is a pitiful man, his al- against the Russian Government. Of 50,000 doctors in this country, date of the founding of the library, most unseeing eyes hidden behind Russla pald them. £10,000 and the B.M.A. claim 37,000 us mem-it was probably among the first blue glasses,
£3,000 respectively.
ibers.
books acquired.
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